REMOVING THE PAST IS TURNING THE DOORKNOB TO THE FUTURE ... Let go of the past that you might follow Me? Extend your hand, cry to Me, Father! ... We are either going down or up. Go up! Go to the secret place of the Most High God! ... Teach us to recognize your hand moving in our lives, actions resulting from sin, ...

Simon of the Playa wrote:if i can get a grant, or win a small scratch off lotto ticket, i'm going to build the sensory overload chamber that consists of a cube that is made from 216 televisions, each wall being a 6 x 6 grid of Televisions, 36 per side.

each wall will have 36 different "channels" all at the same volume. each wall has the same array of channels so that no matter where you look, up, down, sideways, it's all tv, all the time.

i believe that after an extended immersion via La-Z-Boy comfort technology sitting apparatus the mind will separate and re-align it's filters to not only watch, but comprehend all 36 stations at once...an OmniView, a Weltscmerz Machine, a digital Panopticon.

you can take it all in at once.....of course, Dr. Lilly and his associates went stark raving mad in the isolation / deprivation tank so one can only surmise what this might do to a "normal", "healthy" brain.

i kinda dig the temporary schizoid mental state, but i'm weird that way.

* Increasing trust and reducing fear. In a risky investment game, experimental subjects given nasally administered oxytocin displayed "the highest level of trust" twice as often as the control group. Subjects who were told that they were interacting with a computer showed no such reaction, leading to the conclusion that oxytocin was not merely affecting risk-aversion.[28] Nasally administered oxytocin has also been reported to reduce fear, possibly by inhibiting the amygdala (which is thought to be responsible for fear responses).[29] Some researchers have argued that oxytocin has a general enhancing effect on all social emotions since intranasal administration of oxytocin also increases envy and schadenfreude.[30]

* Affecting generosity by increasing empathy during perspective taking. In a neuroeconomics experiment, intranasal oxytocin increased generosity in the Ultimatum Game by 80% but has no effect in the Dictator Game that measures altruism. Perspective-taking is not required in the Dictator Game, but the researchers in this experiment explicitly induced perspective-taking in the Ultimatum Game by not identifying to participants which role they would be in.[32] Serious methodological questions have arisen, however, with regards to the role of oxytocin in trust and generosity.[33]

* Empathy in healthy males has been shown to be increased after intranasal oxytocin[41][42] This is most likely due to the effect of oxytocin in enhancing eye gaze.[43] There is some discussion about which aspect of empathy oxytocin might alter, for example cognitive vs emotional empathy.[44]

Scientists say they’re getting closer to Matrix-style instant learning
What price effortless learning? In a paper published in the latest issue of Science, neuroscientists say they've developed a novel method of learning, that can cause long-lasting improvement in tasks that demand a high level of visual performance.

And while the so-called neurofeedback method could one day be used to teach you kung fu, or to aid spinal-injury patients on the road to rehabilitation, evidence also suggests the technology could be used to target people without their knowledge, opening doors to numerous important ethical questions.